Syndicated Blog Posts by @dandennis_media

This assignment is part of an animated GIF unit and is called “Splain that Dystopia in Six Slides“. The assignment is to simply create a GIF in a slide style to explain how a Dystopian future came to be. A Dystopian future is basically a place regarded as …

This unit was about mashups and the assignment is called “I’m ready for my close up“. This assignment was about taking a close up of a person or an actor and replacing the background with something completely irrelevant. I decided for mine I’d want to make it into …

This assignment for ds106 was part of a video unit was called “DS106ers React!“. Not too recently there was a lot of controversy surrounding channels on youtube that were labelled as “React Channels” these channels were simply videos of people reacting to other videos. The reason they …

This ds106 assignment was part of an audio unit and was called “Create a place“. The aim of the assignment was to use audio to paint a picture of a scene and put the listener there in the location. This assignment really shows the importance of audio in …

This assignment is from the Web unit of ds106 and the assignment is called “Buzzfeed Personality Quiz“. In this assignment, I had to design and create a Buzzfeed quiz with over 3 results and it had to have 6 questions. I decided for mine that I would take …

This assignment within ds106 looks towards the designing of a postcard of a destination. For me this was great as before Christmas, I and my girlfriend went to Edinburgh for a short weekend city break. Whilst I was there I took many photos on my Nikon D3200 and got some …

The first assignment I have chosen is called in ds106 “Averaged Portrait” and in short basically consists of taking multiple photos of the same subject but in multiple positions with little movement. This makes a blurred effect as if the photo was taken with the subject moving when …

This daily create was another simple one. Using your imagination you had to decide and provide media for what was behind the door 106. For this create I decided to use a photo taken by me last week at club Sumo. I personally really …

For this daily create the title and brief was simply “Eleven Eleven”. And with it being the 11th of the 11th, remembrance day, I decided to post a photo of mine i took last year to the day. It was a remembrance writhe placed at the bottom of …

This daily create talked about the power a single red element can have on a black and white image. The only colour immediately attracts the eye to its self first bringing a focal point to the image giving it a much stronger effect. This image was easily …

Kurt Vonnegut uses lines and charts to analyze stories as if they were fed into a computer. The story is played out along an X and Y axis. In this case I have decided to analysis the well loved tale of goldilocks and the three bears …

Numbers appear to be everywhere in our world and sometimes you can pick out certain number and our names cant help but notice repetition or patterns. Like in a sci-fi movie we instantly assume that there’s a reason we keep seeing the number 106 flashing up …

“Accidently Type the Wrong Thing in Image Search and End Up Not Disappointed”

This daily create simply involved typing into google images (or any other search engine) something that sounded similar to something else but with an intention of finding something completely different. For example rather then searching for “Game …

This daily create involved a photograph of two things simply described as doubles. This gave me the perfect opportunity to use a photo I’d taken the week before over the Halloween weekend period in a bar hosting a Halloween party. The image represents double tributes to the late Michael …

Say it like peanut butter was a simple task involving a scene from a movie and taking that clip turning it into a gif. The movie I have chosen is one of the final scenes from snatch where Brad Pit’s character recovers from his injury …

In the definition for Social Media Production it explains that the media created and online tools are used for varying degrees of collective action. This basically means that media is made with the intend use for it to spread to different platforms and appeal to the masses.…

Today’s Daily Create was Extreme Minimalism. I personal feel that this photo taken by myself is very minimalist as the focus area is very small. About 20% of the entire photo is in focus leaving much of the flower out of the shot. Like most minimalist …

This daily create was to find and post an animation or video about something speedy. I decided to find an animation of something being downloaded. The reason for this is that with every generation of tech more and more data can be processed and as a …